Beetham res­i­dents are ex­press­ing con­cern that im­prop­er main­te­nance is one of the main rea­sons why some parts of the area ex­pe­ri­enced dev­as­tat­ing flood dam­age short­ly af­ter heavy rain­fall.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Dil­lon Ramd­hanie not­ed: “they ain’t self send­ing to clean the drain.” He said that peo­ple in the area had to hire peo­ple to clean the drains.

Ramd­hanie al­so com­plained that a sub­stance that em­anat­ed from the An­gos­tu­ra com­pound con­tributed to the build-up of wa­ter in the area.

He said: “By An­gos­tu­ra, they’re dump­ing out a kind of mo­lasses that hard­ens with grass on it.” Ramd­hanie not­ed that the drains in the vicin­i­ty of An­gos­tu­ra mov­ing east­ward to­wards the Vem­cott riv­er, are not be­ing cleaned.

He al­so ex­pressed dis­gust that his home and the homes of his neigh­bors were flood­ed with waist-high wa­ter, his ve­hi­cle was al­so flood­ed and he had to use buck­ets to re­move the wa­ter from his home and ve­hi­cle.

On the Pri­or­i­ty Bus route, the road was not on­ly made im­pass­able due to the flood­wa­ters, but de­bris as well. The de­bris con­sist­ed of logs, plas­tic bot­tles, sty­ro­foam and co­conut shells and the San Juan riv­er washed the de­bris on­to the roads.

Res­i­dents liv­ing and run­ning busi­ness­es on the main road said the riv­er had not got­ten a height like that which was wit­nessed yes­ter­day in years.

Mean­while, the res­i­dents in Beetham said that they have not heard from their MP and they did not re­ceive sand­bags.

They said had they re­ceived sand­bags, they could have pos­si­bly pro­tect­ed their homes.